I like the straight-forward format of listing all the common problems and then potential remedies for each, as opposed to other books where the author dwells so much on the "process", anecdotes, and trivial filler content.

Of the 80+ points listed in this book, some are great Don's:
- Using checkboxes for non-ON/OFF setting
- Using dynamic menus where items change
- Using tabs as radio buttons
- Negative checkboxes
- Same title on different windows
- Asking user for random seeds
- Long ops don’t display progress
- Long ops provide no way to cancel
- Giving programmers the fastest computers

While some other donts are a bit too trvial, I think, such as these:
- Tiny fonts
- Too much text
- Bad writing.
- Cursor can’t keep up.
- “Cancel” doesn’t cancel
- Treating ui as low pri.
- Bad initial window location.
- Noisy search result
- Labels too far from data field.

But I suppose there is value in completeness.

Have not read the v1.0 of this book, so perhaps there were more interesting tidbits in the earlier edition. ( )